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| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5141 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 25 of 102 21 January 2011 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey fellow team member!
We started going over the forms at the end of last semester and I still don't have them down completely. I'm looking forward to following your log! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 26 of 102 22 January 2011 at 6:47am | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, I'm aware that some of those words don't exist. I was just using 'ktb' as a template for derivation. I could have used any three letters really. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 27 of 102 22 January 2011 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||
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No Arabic in this post. This will be a Swahili post... introducing the great Mbaraka
Mwinshehe from the Morogoro Jazz Band/Super Volcano. The Morogoro Jazz band was a mziki wa dansi band incorporating elements of African jazz, Cuban rumba and American R&B. I love their music. Some of their songs: Shida Mashemeji Wangapi Watalii Not my favorite song but its incredibly cute nonetheless. 'Watalii' means tourists. In this song, Mbaraka is inviting tourists to his country. He sings about places like the Ngorongoro Crater and Kilimanjaro. He even goes on to list animals: tembo (elephant), simba (lion), punda milia (zebra), twiga (giraffe) na chui (leopard). I laughed the first time I heard this song. When was the last time you heard someone listing animals in a song? Edited by strikingstar on 22 January 2011 at 8:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5609 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 28 of 102 25 January 2011 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am enjoying the Swahili music! :) I have wanted to learn an African language for ages, sadly no room in my schedule :P I adore a lot of music from Mali so I would love to try some Bambara some day.. would be a cool place to visit. I'm amazed by how many similar words you've listed between Swahili and Arabic! Do you get much of a chance to use your Swahili?
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| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 29 of 102 28 January 2011 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||
أفرح أنك استمتع الموسيقى :) I like African music. Do you have any Malian recommendations? My wordlist is still far from complete. I'm updating it periodically as I go along. There are many similar words between Swahili and Arabic because Swahili has borrowed many words from Arabic. It's been estimated that around 30% of Swahili is derived from Arabic. The huge Arabic influence is a direct result of Oman having controlled the East African coastline from the 17th - 19th century. In fact, Swahili used to be written in the Arabic abjad, and even today, it would not be unusual to find Arabic speakers in Zanzibar (awesome island by the way). You should definitely consider Swahili if you wanna learn an African language in which you'll have a considerable advantage in. I haven't had many opportunities to use Swahili recently. But whenever I'm in the mood, I hop over to BBC Swahili just to keep things fresh. I also want to return to East Africa some day, hopefully sometime soon. PS: جربت كتابة هذه الرسالة باللغة العربية لكني لم أعرف كلمات كثيرة جدا. Edited by strikingstar on 28 January 2011 at 10:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 30 of 102 28 January 2011 at 10:32am | IP Logged | ||
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On any normal day, this is likely what you'll encounter when trying to learn Arabic
verbs... (all 3rd person, male, singular, past tense). to appear - dhahara to attend - hadara to crawl - zahafa to dig - hafara to forsake - hajara to escape - haraba to describe - wasafa to arrive - wasala to detect - kashafa to sit - jalasa to touch - lamasa to wear - labisa I can tell you that after a while, everything starts looking/sounding like "hahaha" and "fafafa" with the occasional "hahiha" thrown in. Sometimes, I wonder if people will assume you said something else if you said "hahaha" quickly enough. Edited by strikingstar on 28 January 2011 at 2:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5114 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 31 of 102 28 January 2011 at 10:46am | IP Logged | ||
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one fighting against the Hahahas! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5566 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 32 of 102 28 January 2011 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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فرح أنك استمتع الموسيقى
------------------------- أنا فرح أنك استمتعتي بالموسيقى 1 person has voted this message useful |
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